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Word: cheeriest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing else, the campaign has lifted employee morale. In the first of four contests, 14 of the 125 competing city groups have won $256,100. According to the balloting among large cities, Chicago has the sweetest stewardesses, Kansas City the cheeriest flight officers, and Paris the nicest reservation clerks. In Paris, Reservation Clerk Denise Boivin picked up $1,000 and, for her victory statement, borrowed a slogan from another company: "Everyone is trying harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: That Million-Dollar Smile | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...looking at things was always his own. He did not paint mountains, but their inner anatomy; he could see demons in the cheeriest of scenes, could find menace lurking inside the most ordinary object. His world was like the nursery of an overimaginative child to whom every fleeting shadow on the wall is a dragon or a ghost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Hinterside of Life | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

...India's Economic Times observed: "If the Commonwealth trade preferences which formed the real and tangible advantages of Commonwealth membership did not exist, the Commonwealth itself might fall apart." Ceylon asked for special guarantees for its vital tea trade, which makes up 60% of its exports. The cheeriest support Britain got anywhere in the Commonwealth came from Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, who forthrightly said, "I think it would be a good thing if Britain joined the Common Market.'' His reason: it would strengthen Europe and the West against Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Commonwealth: The Balky Partners | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...vary widely in the services they perform, the customers they serve. Washington's Services Unlimited will supply bartenders for diplomats but not baby sitters or liquor. Long Island's Allied lists some 250 regular chores-plus 150 special services, such as entertaining at parties. One of the cheeriest jobs was performed by a tree surgeon for Chicago's National Home Owners Club. Called to "fix a tree," he was confronted with a 14-ft. Christmas tree that needed decorating. He did a glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Don't Do It Yourself | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

Congratulations on the Mort Sahl story. It's the cheeriest sketch since Mort Darthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 29, 1960 | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

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